URBN PL M120
Introduction to Cities and Planning
Also listed as PUB AFF M109: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.75
Average grade awarded in URBN PL M120. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
84%
of the 144 letter grades
D, F or W
1.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 144 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.52 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 12 · 8.3%
- A 89 · 61.8%
- A- 20 · 13.9%
- B+ 8 · 5.6%
- B 5 · 3.5%
- B- 5 · 3.5%
- C 2 · 1.4%
- C- 1 · 0.7%
- D 2 · 1.4%
- P 11 of 161
- NP 1 of 161
- S 3 of 161
- I 2 of 161
Percentages are of the 144 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), and incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TILLY, CHRISTOPHER C reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.64 | 58 | 2 | 72% | - | not teaching it |
| MANVILLE, MICHAEL K reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.68 | 34 | 1 | 82% | - | not teaching it |
| GUY, TAM JANINE reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 4.00 | 34 | 1 | 100% | very light | not teaching it |
| LENS, MICHAEL C reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.81 | 18 · | 1 | 94% | very light | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Public Affairs M109.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of urban history and evolution in U.S., urban social theory, current growth trends, system of cities, urban economy and economic restructuring, traditional and alternative location theories, urban transportation, and residential location and segregation. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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